The Department of State Security has released the Regional Editor West Africa of the Conversation Africa, Juwon Soyinka, who was arrested in the early hours of Sunday.
Although the agency has yet to state why he was arrested the release followed the intervention of the spokesperson for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunayan.
His passport however was not released
The former Pioneer Editor of the BBC Pidgin Service was said to have been taken into custody at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State after alighting from a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom.
